b'44302THE NEW COLONY ON THE SWAN RIVERThree newspapers (The Hobart Town Courier of August 8& November 14, 1829 and Trewmans Exeter Flying Post of May 3, 1832) all of which include significant items on the newly established settlement on the Swan River in what would later be re-named Western Australia. The first article is a report from Captain Stirling, dated April 1827, in which he discusses the various options for anchorage, the type of land to be found and the number of days it takes to reach the coast from England, Cape of Good Hope, etc; the last carries quite a bit of information including A weekly newspaper, called the Western Australian, has been published at Fremantle. It is of a very small size; but this is accounted for in the fourth number, in which it is stated that in the printing and compositors department we have but one person to act, there being no other in the colony (3 complete editions).$200300 303FALCONER, William 304 A new and universal dictionary of the Marine; being, a copious explanation of the technical terms and phrases usually employed in the construction, equipment, machinery, movements, and 300 military, as well as naval operations of ships: with such parts ofJOHN OXLEY [1784 - 1828] astronomy, and navigation, as will be found useful to practical Manuscript copy letter from Sydney, in Oxleys hand, navigators. Illustrated with a variety of modern designs of dated 19th Jany 1826, regarding a disputed claim over landshipping, &c. together with separate views of the masts, situated at Bylong, or Pylong, near the Goulburn River. Theyards, sails, and rigging. To which is annexed, a vocabulary letter is signed off by Oxley in his capacity as Surveyor-General. of French sea-phrases and terms of art, collected from the Oxleys appointment as Surveyor-General was at the time ofbest authorities. Originally compiled by William Falconer . Lachlan Macquaries Governorship. Macquarie encouragednow modernized and much enlarged by William Burney.explorationhe had sent George Evans to confirm the[Cadell & Davies, London, 1830] Thick 8vo. Rebound in navy half exploratory work of Wentworth, Blaxland and Lawson overleather, with grey boards and with red and green labels to spine.the Blue Mountains, instigated the building of the road$300500 over the Blue Mountains in 1814-1815, and had travelled to Bathurst immediately William Cox had completed it. From there he had sent George Evans on an expedition up the Lachlan River in May 1815. Macquarie wanted the Lachlan and Macquarie Rivers explored thoroughly.Opening up of the new lands over the mountains had created enthusiasm for further discoveries about them and the Macquarie River. Mysteriously, the Macquarie, and the Lachlan, discovered by Evans in 1815, flowed westwards to the interior of the country and not easterly towards the coastline. Successively, in 1817 and 1818 Macquarie appointed John Oxley in charge of two expeditions to investigate these rivers.On the 1817 Lachlan expedition, Oxley was to come across marshy country and concluded this inland area was uninhabitable. If he had pressed on for two more days he would have reached the Murrumbidgee River. Oxley reported that, in his opinion, the Lachlan flowed into an extensive series of swamps, which were, perhaps, the margin of a great inland sea. Similarly, the Macquarie expedition the following year came to a halt on that river at the Macquarie Marshes in a good season for the marshes as the Macquarie was in flood replenishing these wetlands. Oxley tried to proceed through them but couldnt do so. He returned to the encampment of the rest of his party now convinced that these westward flowing rivers terminated in an inland sea, and he had been on the swampy edge of it. Through Oxley, the theory of the Australian inland sea was fed and perpetuated.$7501,000 301 The HOBART TOWN COURIERfour editions from 1829 (April 4, 25, May 9 & 30);all with TWO PENCE newspaper tax stamps in red.The April 25th edition includes a piece setting forth the terms on which settlers will be permitted to locate in the country adjacent to the Swan River, on the west coast of New South Wales, where it is intended to found a new colony. (4)$200300 308'